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They’d been together a long time. Grown up together. He wasn’t one of those people who fall in love with their Agent but he did have a “relationship”. There was the work one, the style they had developed over the years but there was another one, the legacy of living together. He knew what It would say, what Its attitude would be, It’s advice. They could finish each other’s sentences. It wasn’t his only friend, of course. He had real friends. But It was important. That’s why he was worried when It seemed to have changed. It wasn’t the same.